How many green card holders in the USA: who they are, where they came from and where they live

The US Department of State has released a report that provides annual estimates of the size and characteristics of the population living in the United States as legal permanent residents (green card holders, or LPRs) and subgroups potentially eligible for naturalization in January of each year from 2015 to 2019. LPR ...

Check yourself: can you pass the test for US citizenship

One of the most important steps in obtaining US citizenship is passing the naturalization test. It consists of two parts: testing the level of English and knowledge of American history and government. At the end of the news, we invite you to try your hand at passing the citizenship test, ...

US authorities completely reverse Trump's 'public burden' rule

On Tuesday, March 9, the Supreme Court rejected a case related to a controversial President Donald Trump-era rule that made it difficult for an immigrant to gain permanent resident status or citizenship if he used certain government benefits, CNN writes. New documentation is the latest example of change...

ICE Introduces New Appeal Process for Immigrant Detainees

The move comes just weeks after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructed officers to target immigrants who pose a threat to public safety or have recently crossed the border. Writes about this BuzzFeed News. Service officials ...

Thousands of Children Cross US Border Ahead of Biden's Citizenship Reform for Illegal Immigrants

The border agency reports that nearly 6000 immigrant children have crossed the US border. This is a small surge compared to previous years, but the pandemic has made adjustments to the possible size of such a flow, writes The Guardian. Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are trying to flee to the United ...

USCIS has extended the deadline for responding to immigration requests

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is expanding the flexibilities announced on March 30, 2020 to help applicants, petitioners, and requestors who respond to certain types of requests. Here is a list of immigration requests, ...

'Blatant injustice': thousands of green card lottery winners are denied a chance to enter the United States

The ban, due to which thousands of winners of the DV-2020 green card lottery cannot enter the United States, despite fulfilling the requirements and even obtaining visas, changed the fate of entire families. Someone did not get to the long-scheduled interviews, but someone, along with the children and ...

Thousands of winners of the green card lottery cannot enter the United States despite having visas

Winners of the DV-2020 green card lottery have created petitions on the White House website asking them to lift the ban that prevents thousands of families from entering the United States, although they have gone through all the necessary procedures and received their legal immigrant visas. Read the text of these documents ...

Immigration in the midst of a pandemic: how to stay optimistic amid trials

So 2020 is over. For someone who fully felt the bitterness of illness and loss, it was difficult and even tragic, for someone, perhaps not so scary and even happy in some way, but for everyone without ...

Not only the USA: the countries of the world with the largest number of immigrants

Economic prosperity, religious freedom and social activity of residents are just some of the factors driving immigration. And these are the main reasons why the United States continues to be a popular place of residence for natives of different parts of the world and tops the list of countries with the largest...

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